The Arctic is not usually a hotbed for lightning — the air is simply not warm enough for thunderstorms to usually occur. But as the Arctic warms at an <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/10/world/climate-change-noaa-arctic-report-card-2019/index.html" target="_blank">alarming rate</a>, that lightning frequency is changing as well.

In fact, Arctic lightning has tripled in just the